(It appears, however, that only CrashPlan for Home users with individual accounts are offered discounts on the consumer version of Carbonite if you have a family CrashPlan subscription, you’re offered a discount on a Carbonite business plan, which does not include
Carbonite normally charges $59.99 to $149.99 per year for home users ($269.99 to $1299.99 for business users), but CrashPlan for Home users will get a 50 percent discount for their first year, plus 20 percent off Storage Packs for Carbonite business accounts.
If you’re not a candidate for CrashPlan for Small Business, Code42 offers a discount on a Carbonite subscription, along with assistance in migrating to Carbonite. (Its normal price is $10 per device per month - that’s twice the price of the single-user CrashPlan for Home, and up to eight times as much as the now-discontinued family plan.)
(On the other hand, users of the free CrashPlan app who were doing local or peer-to-peer backups will be able to take advantage of either of the same special discount offers available to CrashPlan Central subscribers, which I explain next.)įor home customers who want to transition to CrashPlan’s small business plan (available for any group with 1–199 computers to back up), Code42 offers free, instant migration of your data the transfer of any time remaining on your consumer plan to the small business plan and a 75 percent discount on the small business plan for your first year. Either way, any data you haven’t restored by that date will be gone forever. So, if you are backing up to CrashPlan Central (Code42’s cloud storage space for consumers), all your backed-up data will be deleted on the end date but even if you aren’t, you won’t be able to keep using the CrashPlan app. On 22 October 2018, the consumer version of the CrashPlan app will stop working entirely - that includes local and peer-to-peer backups. However, Code42 is offering no refunds, even for people who subscribed (or renewed) the day before the announcement.
So if you subscribed this week, you can use the service for a full 14 months, and even if you subscribed a year ago, you have at least 2 months to move to a different service.
In short, I have a significant personal and professional investment in CrashPlan, based on countless hours of research and testing - I’veĮvaluated more than 100 backup apps! - and now, with a mixture of anger and disappointment, I have to tell you that it’s time to find something else. I wrote “ Take Control of CrashPlan Backups” about it I recommended it in numerous other books, including “ Backing Up Your Mac: A Joe On Tech Guide” and it was (until now) my top pick in a Wirecutter round-up of online backup services. I’ve been using CrashPlan since 2007, shortly after its initial release, and I was so impressed by it from day one that I’ve been evangelizing it ever since.
Code42 Software has announced that it’s discontinuing its consumer backup product, CrashPlan for Home. It has been a few years since a decision by a major tech company last turned me into a green rage monster, but it just happened again.